PAUL GAUGUIN La Femme aux Figues. Etching printed in black on cream laid...

PAUL GAUGUIN
La Femme aux Figues.

Etching printed in black on cream laid paper, 1894. 265x415 mm; 10 1/2x16 3/8 inches, full margins. Third state (of 3). A superb, richly-inked impression.

According to Boyle-Turner, "This controverisal print has been assigned to Seguin, to Gauguin, and even to a collaboration of both artists." The artist Armand Seguin (1869-1903) was a close friend of Gauguin during the late 1880s/early 1890s. Based on the etched inscription upper left, "Chez Seguin à St. Julien," the scene takes place at Seguin's Breton home in Pouldu. Scholarship regarding authorship for the print leans toward Gauguin, in its similarities to other of his Breton female portrait compositions. Kornfeld 25....